The UQ|UP community is warmly invited to join an engaging online workshop hosted by the International Geographical Union (IGU) Transport and Geography Commission. This event will explore the intersections of gender, mobility, and transport through three cutting-edge perspectives from Australia. UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani has been a member of the IGU Transport & Geography Commission since … Continue reading
This past Friday, UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani delivered a seminar at UCT Hanoi. This was an inspiring one-day event where all presenters were women—a showcase of female leadership in transport academia. Dorina’s presentation focused on transport policy transfer in Southeast Asia, exploring how transport ideas and projects are adapted and implemented across the region. The seminar … Continue reading
Join UQ|UP in a joint seminar between Brisbane and Semarang (Indonesia) to celebrate the 30 years of the Sister City Partnership between the two cities. The seminar will discuss issues around housing and urban growth in both cities, with presentations from Brisbane City Council and Semarang City Government and comments from colleagues from UQ and … Continue reading
UQ|UP is organising a series of seminars in collaboration with the Brisbane City Council in Australia and Universitas Diponegoro and the Semarang City Government in Indonesia. We seek to foster a dialogue between Brisbane and Semarang, which have been sister cities for thirty years. There are three seminars in the series, each discussing a topic … Continue reading
Agenda: This interactive seminar will be quite informal and highly pragmatic. It aims to offer some new angles from project management which can help those who are intending to write, or are currently completing, a research thesis. Emphasis will be placed on initial aspects (project scope, initiation and risk management) which can condition the entire … Continue reading
This seminar is an opportunity to gain an understanding of the experiences of how people with disabilities navigate a world of imbalances and challenges presented by frameworks designed for non-disabled people. Hear about personal experiences from people with disability in academia and their pathway to success. Title: Disability and the Diverse Pathway to Success Speakers: … Continue reading
A panel of Indigenous people are coming together in UQ’s NAIDOC week to answer your questions about engaging with Indigenous communities respectfully and appropriately, to enable productive collaboration that creates positive outcomes for both communities and science. Join online on Wednesday 4 August at 12 pm for a yarn with some of UQ’s Indigenous staff … Continue reading
UQ|UP HDR students are invited to join peers from around the world to reflect on their experiences doing (or attempting to do) field research during a global, but geographically uneven, pandemic. The discussion will build on the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research’s (IJURR) recently published Spotlight on Becoming an Urban Research During a … Continue reading
Perceived discrimination (PD) in the field of Discourse Analysis is the study of discourse that focuses on the perspectives of the victims of discrimination, exploring what they say and how they say it. This seminar will present the results of a PD study of twelve Spanish speaking immigrants to Brisbane, during semi-structured, co-constructed interviews. Data … Continue reading
The Australian Cities Research Network is convening the first webinar panel for the new ACRN ‘Speaking Out’ series which focuses on how the urban research community can contribute to addressing issues of gender inequity. Specifically, the ways in which urban research can work to: inform urban policy / practice; contribute to public debate / social movements; … Continue reading